REL 121: From the Word to the World

You could start with a Simple Search in WorldCat, our library catalogue:

Go to the Description of relevant books and scroll down to the Subjects field. Take note of relevant subject headings.

Useful Subject Headings:

• Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
• Theology History Early church, ca. 30-600
• Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• Apostolic Fathers
• Fathers of the church
• Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History 16th century
• Reformation
• Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. History 20th century
• Hermeneutics
• Postmodernism
• Feminist criticism
• Feminism Religious aspects

AND finds all terms

OR finds either term

feminis* finds any ending

Then try an Advanced Search in WorldCat  using keywords from the Subject headings found in the Descriptions of relevant books:

Go to  EBSCO Services on the library Databases page and try the following search.

The following search will retrieve articles about Biblical interpretation by the Reformers, in the 16th century:

The following search will retrieve articles about Biblical interpretation in more recent times, e.g. feminist interpretation:

Go to JSTOR and try the following search after selecting Advanced Search.  For additional help with JSTOR, look under the Databases tab on the library website.